Leap-Year Book Sale for RASKB Members
Leap-Year Book Sale for RASKB Members
Members of the RASKBmay purchase any of the following books for 50% of the marked price from now until February 29, 2012. For any purchase totalling more than 30,000 won, one of the titles marked (*) may be chosen as a free gift. Orders should be emailed to raskb@kornet.com specifying if you will collect the books from our office (Seoul, Jongno 5ga) or if you wish us to add postage. If you live overseas, please specify if you prefer surface or airmail mailing. You will then be informed of the total including postage.
We also have a number of other books in stock which are not included in this Sale. Please use the link in the Publications page to see our full list. Members of RASKB are entitled to a smaller discount on the other books.
1. (*) Discovering Seoul: An Historical Guide. Donald N. Clark & James H. Grayson. RAS-KB, 1986. Softbound. illustrated, with maps. 358 pp. ISBN 978-89-93699-04-3
Sale price $4 / KW5,000
This detailed guidebook written by two authors who have had long experience living in the city, describes the historical monuments and sites in Seoul, grouped by neighborhoods for easy location. It includes maps, references to the subway system, diagrams and color photographs, with explanations of the history and significance of each site. There is also a Chinese-character glossary and index. $8 / KW10,000
2. Early Encounters with the United States and Japan: Six Essays on Late Nineteenth-Century Korea. Lew, Young-Ick, RAS-KB, 2007. Hardback and Softbound. 249 pp. ISBN 978-89-954424-8-7
Sale price $20 / KW24,000
The book consists of six essays on late 19th century Korean history. All of them were originally prepared and presented as conference papers or keynote speeches at major conferences held in Korea and the US. They deal with Korea’s relations with the US and Japan mainly between 1882, when the Jeoson Kingdom signed its first modern treaty with the United States, and 1905 when the same kingdom called the Daehan (Great Han) Empire from 1987, degenerated into a protectorate of Japan. $40 / KW48,000
3. Encounters: The New Religions of Korea and Christianity. General editors: Kim Sung-hae and James Heisig. RAS-KB, 2008. Softbound. 191 pp. ISBN 978-89-954424-9-4
Sale price $17 / KW20,000
This book has chapters describing the origins, faith and practice of the three main 'new' religions of Korea, Cheondo-gyo, Daejong-gyo and Won-Buddhism, written by members of each, as well as general chapters considering them from a sociological viewpoint, and a Christian perspective. The book ends with a transcript of an open exchange between senior members of the religions. $35 / KW42,000
4. Essays on Korean Traditional Music. Lee Hye-ku, trans. by Robert C. Provine, RAS-KB, 1980. Softbound. 278 pp. ISBN 978-89-93699-03-6
Sale price $12 / KW15,000
The only Korean musicologist of international repute. Dr. Lee Hye-Ku has struggled over the past few decades to keep Korean traditional music from being swallowed up in the tide of Westernization. Until now, apart from a few translated articles, his work has been accessible only to Korean speakers. A definitive text on Korean traditional music in English. $25 / KW30,000
5 (*) In This Earth and In That Wind. Lee O-young, translated by David Steinberg, RAS-KB, 1967. Softbound. 226 pp. ISBN 89-954424-5-X
Sale price $5 / KW6,000
A collection of 50 vignettes of commonplace Korean life allowing the reader to draw from the daily habits, customs and events his own picture of Korean society. The author often contrasts aspects of Korean culture with that of foreign nations and draws a variety of conclusions about Korean society from these contrasts. $10 / KW12,000
6. (*) Introduction to Korean Music and Dance, An. Lee Hye-ku, RAS-KB, 1977. Softbound. 54 pp.
Sale price $4 / KW5,000
A general discussion for non-specialist Western reader. $8 / KW10,000
7. (*) Korea and Christianity: The Problem of Identification and Tradition. Spencer J. Palmer, RAS-KB, 1967. Softbound. 174 pp. ISBN 978-89-93699-10-4
Sale price $6 / KW7,500
An early study of the success of Christianity in Korea, especially in contrast to China. $12 / KW15,000
8. Korean Shamanism: Revivals, Survivals and Change. Keith Howard, ed., RAS-KB, 1998, Softbound, 258 pp.
Sale price $17 / KW20,000
A thoroughly readable collection of critical research from prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, religion, history, and the arts. Koreans, virtually alone in the world, have kept the ancient traditional religion of shamanism alive at a time of massive industrialization, modernization and Westernization. $35 / KW42,000
9. Korean Political Tradition and Law. Hahm Pyong-choon, RAS-KB, 1971, Hardbound. 249 pp. ISBN 978-89-93699-07-4
Sale price $12 / KW15,000
A compendium of articles by a noted law professor (later Ambassador to the United States), ostensibly on various legal perceptions but giving deep insight into some of the conflicts between western and Korean legal and social concepts. Very helpful in understanding some cultural differences. $25 / KW30,000
10, (*) Pioneer American Businessman in Korea: The Life and Times of Walter David Townsend. Harold F. Cook, RAS-KB, 1981. Softbound. 100 pp. ISBN 978-89-93699-11-1
Sale price $4 / KW5,000
This biography of one of the first foreign businessmen in Korea becomes the framework for a unique view of early trade issues and difficulties, with a description of life for foreign traders in Korea a century ago. $8 / KW10,000
11. Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels. Translated by Richard Rutt & Kim Chong-un, RAS-KB, 1974. Hardbound. 399 pp. ISBN 89-954424-3-3
Sale price $21 / KW27,000
The three most significant works of traditional Korean fiction: A Nine Cloud Dream, The True History of Queen Inhyon, and The Song of a Faithful Wife, Ch'unhyang. The major characters are all women and the three novels together give a vivid picture of the Korean ideal of womanhood before it felt the impact of Western culture. $42 / KW54,000
12. (*) Wind and Bone. Ruth Stewart, RAS-KB, 1980. Softbound. 145 pp. ISBN 978-89-93699-01-2
Sale price $2 / KW3,000
Delicate word-paintings of contemporary rural Korea, its people and their changing milieu, by a sensitive author who has spent some 30 years in rural Korea. $5 / KW6,000
Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, Volumes 40-85 1963-2010. KW 15,000 per volume.
RASKB Reprint Series (in stock)
13. Fifteen Years Among the Topknots. 1904 and 1908. Lillias H. Underwood, RAS-KB Reprint, 1987. Softbound. 403 pp.
Sale price $12 / KW15,000
A delightfully written personal, perceptive account of a long-gone Korea, shedding new light on a period too often passed over as reactionary and of no import to the modern world, but which was also a period of incredibly rapid change. The 1908 edition contains three new chapters and this edition includes a personal sketch of the author by her 20-year-younger sister.$25 / KW30,000
14. Undiplomatic Memories. William F. Sands, 1930. RAS-KB Reprint, 1990 Softbound. 238 pp.
Sale price $10 / KW12,000
A delightfully informal account of Korean affairs and foreign policy at the turn of the century as seen by a young American foreign service officer.$20 / KW24,000
15. (*) The Song of a Faithful Wife, Richard Rutt, trans. RAS-KB Reprint, 1999, Paperbound, 97 pp.
Sale price $5 / KW6,000
Here is the timeless love story of Korea--the story of Ch'unhyang. An official's son and a girl of lowbirth fall in love and are secretly married. The official and his family are sent far away, and the girl becomes the property of a local official who abuses her. Her lover, though, attains the rank of government inspector and returns to punish the local official and rescue his beloved. Rutt's translation in narrative form is the most readable of English translations currently available.$10 / KW12,000
Books from other publishers (in stock)
16. (*) Korean Ideas and Values,Michael C Kalton,(Philip Jaisohn Memorial papers) Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation (1979) ($6 / KW8,000) Sale price $3 / KW4,000
17. (*) South Korea(P. Bartz) Clarendon Press ($10 / KW12,000) Sale price $5 / KW6,000
18.The United States and Korea: American-Korean Relations 1866-1976. Andrew C. Nahm, Editor. Kalamazoo, MI: The Center for Korean Studies, Western Michigan University, 1979 ($30 / KW36,000) Sale price $15 / KW18,000
Korea through Myths and Legends. Robin Rhee. Seoul Press. ($25 / KW30,000) Sale price $12 / KW15,000
18. (*) Democracy in Korea. Sang-yong Choi Seoul Press for the Korean Political Science Association, 1997 ($6 / KW8,000) Sale price $3 / KW4,000
19. (*) Early Voyagers: Collected Poems. James Wade. Hollym 1969. ($3 / KW4,000) Free with any other purchase on request
20.Humanity and Self-cultivation. Tu Wei-ming. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press ($30 / KW36,000) Sale price $15 / KW18,000
